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’12 Years a Slave’

28/02/2014

The Ten O’Clock News: “and the Oscar goes to… every fuckin’ person who was involved in this goddamn hearbreaking real life fuckin’ example of human evil!”

So I think something like two-thirds of this year’s Oscars nominations are based on true stories – 12 Years a Slave, The Wolf of Wall Street, Dallas Buyers’ Club, etc. (I’m assuming they’re nominated. I’ve seen them in the press, you know?!) On an almost entirely unrelated note, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s latest musical Stephen Ward… Continue reading

DISCUSS., February 2014, Films, Government and Politics, Newspapers, The Ten O’Clock News, THE WORLD *head in hands*

’12 Years a Slave’, ‘Dallas Buyers’ Club’, ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’, ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, dodgy Japanese toilets, Endal the dog, films that should be made, Indifferent Ignorance, musicals, Oscars, Profumo scandal, Stephen Ward, The Ten O’Clock News, Ugandan tabloids

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’12 Years a Slave’

The Ten O’Clock News: “and the Oscar goes to… every fuckin’ person who was involved in this goddamn hearbreaking real life fuckin’ example of human evil!”